The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has a responsibility to protect Americans’ freedom to vote, but recent actions by the DOJ are instead endangering these freedoms by attempting to seize sensitive voter information from states in what is an improper overreach by the federal government.
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Despite its limited role of enforcing federal election laws in elections, the U.S. Department of Justice has demanded expansive voter information from at least 39 states. DOJ is now attempting to use the federal courts to require states to comply with those unlawful demands, by states for personal, private voter data.
DOJ is not investigating specific potential violations of the law, but rather, is attempting an extraordinary expansion of federal collection of sensitive voter data, without adhering to state and federal protections for voters’ data or respect for the state’s primary role in election administration.
The U.S. Constitution clearly gives the power to regulate and administer elections to the states or Congress, not the executive branch. These actions by DOJ trample on our government’s separation of powers and system of federalism.
